Top Ten Favorite Covers
55February 24, 2014 by Alice in Readerland
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Have you ever seen a book cover and just went:
and then:
Here are some covers that made me feel that way:
1. Tigers on a Beach by Doug MacLeod
A tiger and a girl at the beach sitting on pretty chairs. Seriously, what could be better?
2. These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner (review)
I loved the deep greens and blues on this cover so much that I painted my nails to match it!
3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
This is actually a picture of my bookshelf, but I absolutely adore my edition of Alice in Wonderland!
4. Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense by Lewis Carroll
I love the Jabberwocky poem and I just got this book for myself!
5. Saving Lucas Biggs by Marisa de los Santos and David Teague
I’m really excited for this book to come out, but I also love the stars, silhouettes, and color combination on the cover!
6. For Darkness Shows the Stars and Across a Star-Swept Sea by Diana Peterfreund (Across a Star-Swept Sea review)
All the stars and colors on these covers are stunning!
7. The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer (Cinder review, Scarlet review, and Cress review)
I think that my favorite series ever has some of the coolest covers ever!
8. Once by Cameron Dokey
I want to wear that dress, it’s gorgeous!
9. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
I love the clouds, colors, and textures on this cover!
10. Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
I love dragons and I love how the colors pop on this cover.
What are some of your favorite book covers?
Alice in Readerland 
I did covers, too! And I believe we had some overlapping choices. ;)
Cool, I’ll have to check your list out! :)
It’s nice to see different kinds of book covers in a sea of the same 4-5 styles over and over again. As an amateur artist, I tend to immediately notice the color scheme, and if it seems to match the title or book’s subject matter. A good typeface and actual art, in lieu of photographs, also makes me love a cover.
One of the recent covers I really liked was Merrie Haskell’s The Princess Curse, an upper MG historical fantasy that retells a few fairytales. I also loved the original U.S. covers for Ida Vos’s MG historicals. The more recent U.S. covers for her books don’t really appeal to me.
Thanks for telling me your picks! :)
Agree about These Broken Stars and Saving Lucas Banks! Both of those are on my TBR list because of the covers alone =)
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I really enjoyed These Broken Stars and I’m looking forward to Saving Lucas Biggs! :)
Yes, yes, yes I have! I often judge a book by its cover. Bad, I know. But I just can’t help it. There are some really cute covers here.
Thanks! :)
I’m blanking on thinking back to my favorite covers, however, I wanted to chime in to say that I frequently will take a chance on a book based only on the cover or title. I won’t even bother reading the description, I’ll just buy it on a gut feeling and usually, it works out!
I love when a book ends up being as awesome as its cover! :D
Love those covers! My fav would have to be the Hunger Games one and I can’t believe I’ve never seen it before?!
They made that cover when the Catching Fire movie was released, I think it’s awesome! :)
I love the covers you’ve picked! These Broken Stars ended up on my TBR list before I even knew what it was about because of the cover. I love how Cinder Scarlet and Cress all have red running through them. Really ties the books together. Thanks for stopping by earlier.
I love how The Lunar Chronicles covers are all tied together by their red elements too, I’m excited to see Winter’s cover! :)
Great pics! I’m going to have to check out your #6 pick. I’ve been eying the Lunar Chronicles (among many books) and I might have to just break down and buy them, since my library is taking forever on the wait list!
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I hope you love them when you get to read them! :)
I pretty much love any book covers with stars on them, so I adore your choices! And I love your Alice themed shelf! It’s perfect!
Same here, I am such a sucker for stars/galaxy print. :)
Thank you, I love Alice in Wonderland!
All such wonderful covers! I have a weakness for books with pretty covers :P
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Me too. :)
I like the cover of Tigers on the Beach the most. It makes me curious about the book and I’ll have to check it out. thanks for visiting my TTT – book I’d like to read for the first time again :)
I really love that cover! :)
A lot of the time, the cover of a book is what catches my eye. I definitely agree with many of yours, and also have to say the covers of The River of Time series by Lisa Tawn Bergren, Melanie Dickerson’s books, and Doon (which I haven’t read yet). They are beautiful covers!
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Doon’s cover is beautiful, and I’ll have to check out the other covers you mentioned! :)
Not read any of those but there are some pretty covers. :)
I haven’t read a couple of these either. ;)
I think my TBR list just grew a bit ;)
The cover for These Broken Stars is stunning *want*
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I hear the inside of the hardback has some galaxy print pages in it! *WANTS*
Those gifs are PERFECT, Alice. Absolutely perfect, I couldn’t stop smiling. Those covers *drools* I love them all. Of course, I agreed on every cover. I’m mostly entranced by Saving Lucas Biggs though, it’s gorgeous!
Thanks! :) I’m really excited about Saving Lucas Biggs, both because of the gorgeous cover and because the story involves time travel!
*High fives you back* Yay for more pretty covers! These Broken Stars is by far one of my favorites! I love your manicure also-so pretty! I love the Saving Lucas Biggs one. What a great cover!
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What a beautiful cover of Alice In Wonderland! :) The cover of These Broken Stars is so eye catching, I can’t wait to read this book!
I hope you enjoy it when you read it! :)
I love the cover for Cinder. That’s what actually first got me interested in the book. Now, I’ve not read it yet but as soon as I finish the book I’m working on, I do believe that’s what I’ll read next. The cover for Tigers on a Beach got a laugh from me because it was so unexpected. Very unique cover. My top ten list – on series I’ve not finished yet – can be found here: http://pagesofstarlight.blogspot.com/2014/02/top-ten-series-i-have-yet-to-finish.html
I was pretty surprised when I saw the title and cover for Tigers on a Beach! :)
I bought both of the For Darkness Shows the Stars books, solely because of the covers! Well, I also want to read them, but the covers convinced me ;) And I love the Lunar Chronicles colors too – especially how the reds and purples blend together.
I love the red elements on the Lunar Chronicles covers, I’m excited to see Winter’s!
I haven’t read a couple of these books. I love the cover of Once by Cameron Dokey.
I haven’t read Once yet, either!
Great pick. Soooooo many pretty covers, I now want to go buy half of these myself just because of how gorgeous the covers are – especially the For Darkness Shows the Stars ones. Nice list :) My TTT.
I still need to buy some of the ones from the list, they’re just too pretty! :)
For darkness shows the stars, Once, Lunar Chronicles, These broken stars, yeeeeas. Catching fire is one of the few books with movie cover I actually like.
Agreed! I don’t like very many movie cover books, but I really loved the new cover for Catching Fire! :)
Totally agree with These Broken Stars, the Lunar Chronicles, and Diana Peterfreund’s books. The covers are so gorgeous and I totally take a liking to those starry kinds of backgrounds on a cover. I also love your version of Alice in Wonderland! Those teacups and the pastel colors work so well. Thanks for sharing, Alice! <33
Thanks! :D
The FDStS and AaSSS covers… swoon! I also really like The Lunar Chronicles, Alice and Wonderland, These Broken Stars covers a lot too!
Going to be honest here, while I totally loved AaSSS, I clicked “Buy” before I finished reading the synopsis because of its gorgeous cover. ;)
I loved that you picked covers that aren’t always on everyone’s list!! I love the These Broken Stars cover and your lovely matching nails!! i like when you do those nail posts :) The Star Swept Sea books are gorgeous too and Saving Lucas Biggs!!
Thank you!!! :)
Great love love love the coverof These Broken Stars and the book itself was also amazing!
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All of those gorgeous and fun covers aside, I love the Frozen images in the beginning. They made me smile! :)
Thanks, I adore Frozen!
The Lunar Chronicles – I love how they relate to the fairy tales. Cinder is one of those covers I wasn’t very fussed on but then I got my own copy and saw the detail of the cyborg foot… love it!
I love the detailing in it too. :)